The licensing: Free and open source vs. paid, proprietary, and closed source. That really is the core difference, the licensing, and all the differences that come as consequences of that difference.

What separates the Linux kernel from the (Free)BSD kernels is copyleft/reciprocal licensing vs. permissive licensing.

My bad. I meant ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ.

I have no idea—I’ve never run an Lemmy instance.

This page seems to be broken: https://blog.kaki87.net/instances

This can’t be good:

$ curl -s https://blog.kaki87.net/api/v3/federated_instances | jq .
{
  "federated_instances": {
    "linked": [],
    "allowed": [],
    "blocked": []
  }
}

Your instance doesn’t seem to be aware of any others.

Can a user on the banning instance message the banned user?

I’ve never tried it so I’m not sure.

If so, can the banned user reply?

I’ve never tried this either, but I highly doubt it.

A hacky, incomplete solution has been running for a while: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3399

A full solution has been merged, but I don’t think it’s been released yet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5515

Correct, future posts/comments. It’s like getting banned from every community on that instance. They also can’t send direct messages to users on that instance.

The user cannot vote, post or comment on that instance^[1]. If a user’s own instance bans them, then they can’t even log in.

The user was instance banned from sh.itjust.works: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?actionType=All&userId=22076002

Oh cool.

There’s no such integration that I’m aware of. We rely on users reporting CSAM and such.

For all you know, that site may steal your lemmy.ml credentials. Don’t use your credentials on random-ass sites.

No, and I doubt there will be. The lemmy.ml instance is managed by the core developers of Lemmy itself, and they use it to run beta releases of Lemmy. Adding additional, nonstandard front-ends written by third-parties would complicate things for them.

@AdAstra@lemmy.ml isn’t banned from !europe@lemmy.ml, but they’ve been inactive for five years. It’s effectively abandoned.

Most lemmy.ml communities effectively have no moderators, because over time the moderators left, and no one offered to replace them. Requests to moderate abandoned communities are done through !community_requests@lemmy.ml.

The UI only allows community moderators to edit their settings, like for instance banners and icons.

Let me Google ChatGPT that for you.

We don’t come to social media for AI copypasta. People who want spicy autocomplete answers can prompt LLMs themselves.

1. Governments have controlled money for millennia, and governments’ central banks have for over a century. There’s nothing new going on there.
2. You’re conflating digital currency and cryptocurrency. All cryptocurrencies are digital, but not all digital currencies are crypto.

You say that as if the majority of currency transactions worldwide weren’t already digital.

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